José Santos
Senior Director Of Engineering at Jumia Group
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Santos is a seasoned engineering leader with nearly two decades of web development experience and a proven record of building scalable, real-time payment and service platforms for high-growth markets. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at Jumia Group, he combines hands-on architecture skills in microservices, SOA and distributed systems with pragmatic team leadership—mentoring engineers from junior to senior while running multiple scrum teams. His background spans front-end innovations (Web Components, PWAs) to backend performance work (NodeJS, PHP, SQL/NoSQL, messaging queues, RPC), and he’s actively exploring Go for high-performance APIs. Known for prioritizing customer-centric, low-bandwidth performance and secure design, he also brings a creative edge from studies in communication design and painting that influences product experience and engineering aesthetics.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Multimedia, Multimedia at IEFPCET, Technologies and Programming Information Systems, CET, Technologies and Programming Information Systems at Escola Superior Aveiro NorteCommunication Design class, Communication Design class at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do PortoPainting, Painting at Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade do PortoEngineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (48)
material-you9
material39
lit8
typescript8
lit-element7
audit7
lit-html7
developer-tools7
auditing6
performance-analysis6
monitoring6
web-components6
rest-api5
webapp5
rest5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JumiaMDS/niobe-public
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:61 PRs, 106 pushes, 17 branches in 4 months
apiadminplatformsadmin-dashboardpolymer
josemsantos/jumia-travel-changelog-generator
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 releases, 30 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 months
changelogreactcli
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